Convertible garment and container

a technology of convertible garments and containers, applied in the direction of convertible garments, protective garments, overgarments, etc., can solve the problems of redundant, uncomfortable and inconvenient, and no use of the arrangement elements at all, and achieve the effect of reducing the number of garments

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-05-27
RUCKJACK CORP
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[0045]In kitesports (snowkiting, kitebuggying, powerkiting, kitesurfing) the system can be used in the container configuration to carry the kite to a launching spot. After removing the kite, instead of having an empty rucksack lyin...

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Conversely in either mode some elements of the arrangement are not in use at all and are redundant for that particular mode.
The straps thus rest against the wearer's back during the wearing of the jacket which can be uncomfortable and inconvenient.
There is a further inconvenience when the jacket is put on or taken off as the straps may hinder insertion or removal of the wearer's hands and arms into or out of the sleeves.
Conversely, the sleeves of the jacket are redundant in the rucksack mode, being merely stowed within the body of the container.
In this mode the sleeves are inconveniently placed within the rucksack, taking up valuable space within the container volume and, being unstowed, also obscuring objects or items contained within the rucksack, thereby reducing accessibility and the overall functionality of the arrangement in the container mode.
Other prior art arrangements generally involve multi-step operations to effect this conversion which ma...

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[0061]The container-garment system 20 is shown in the garment mode 22 in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 and in the container mode 24 in FIGS. 4-12. It is made from a suitable durable, but robust, fabric: the material is preferably waterproof, but lightweight and has thermal insulation properties suitable for retaining the wearer's body warmth in the garment mode. The garment can be designed like a jacket, a T-shirt, windcheater, kagool or any other upper body garment. The garment can have any type of collar. A straight collar 30 is shown in FIG. 3 and a collar with hood 12 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. As a garment the system may or may not have a central opening 10, which could run the whole length of the garment, as shown in FIG. 1 where the garment is a jacket, or only along a part of the length to widen the neck opening but terminating part way down the front of the garment.

[0062]In one embodiment of the invention the closure elements 1a, 1b of the first closure means 1 extend upwards from a poi...

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A system (20) having the form of a garment (22), such as a jacket or pullover top, which can be transformed into one of a number of different fully closable containers (24), such as a rucksack, bag, or daypack, or vice-versa and a method for performing the transformation. Closure of the neck aperture (15) is operated by actuating a first closure means (1) extending from a common point (14) below the neck on the back of the body (R) of the garment, over the shoulders on either side of the neck aperture down the front (F) of said body.

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[0001]This invention concerns a system which can be transformed from a garment, such as a jacket or pullover top, to one of a number of different fully closable containers, such as a rucksack, bag, or daypack, or vice-versa.[0002]Prior art arrangements which can be transformed between a garment mode and a container mode and vice versa comprise elements which are typically in use in only one of these modes. Conversely in either mode some elements of the arrangement are not in use at all and are redundant for that particular mode. An example of such a jacket is disclosed, for example, by EP0269578. In such arrangements a jacket may be transformed into a rucksack: the arrangement comprises straps (or tapes) attached to the inner side of the jacket which have no use while the arrangement is being worn as a jacket. The straps are exposed by turning the jacket inside out. In this way, the straps are used exclusively in the rucksack mode, being redundant in the jacket mode.[0003]When the a...

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IPC IPC(8): A45F4/12A41D3/02A41D27/00
CPCA41D15/04A44B11/02A45F4/12A45F4/00
Inventor KELLING, SVEN
Owner RUCKJACK CORP
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